Best of Sally: Training Our Children in Character
Life with Sally
Sally Clarkson
4.9 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2019
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
I hope you will enjoy today's podcast, another in the Best of Sally series, all about training our children to be virtuous. A number of women have asked me to speak about the area of training children, so hope it will be of encouragement to you. Of course, same principles apply to us grown up children. Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, welcome to Add Home with Sally. I'm Sally Clarkson and I have the biggest |
| 0:13.0 | privilege in the world to be with so many friends from all over the world who join me every |
| 0:18.6 | week to listen to my stories, inspiration, biblical encouragement. And I am just so glad |
| 0:24.6 | that you're here today. Thanks so much for joining me. |
| 0:36.9 | Hi friends, Mr. Krasowsky here. I am back again with another episode of our best of Sally |
| 0:42.5 | series. And today, Sally is talking with us about training our children. Now this is from a |
| 0:49.7 | series about the book Ministry of Motherhood, which is just such a wonderful treasure trove of |
| 0:56.9 | information and help and encouragement about the ways Christ has modeled parenting for us, |
| 1:03.1 | which I think is a really unique perspective on parenting. In this particular podcast, |
| 1:09.6 | Sally is talking about training our children and particularly in the area of training toward |
| 1:15.6 | virtuous character. There's a quote here that says, excellence is an art one by training and |
| 1:22.1 | habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have |
| 1:28.0 | those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an |
| 1:34.2 | act, but a habit. That's from Aristotle. I think there's something really important here and that |
| 1:41.2 | is that as parents, we have a tendency to get frustrated with our children because we have told |
| 1:46.1 | them to pick up their socks and not leave them by the front door. At least I have heard that other |
| 1:51.8 | people sometimes have this issue with their children. Pick up your socks, don't leave them by the |
| 1:56.8 | front door. And we've told them, you know, five times or ten times or whatever it is. And we feel |
| 2:03.0 | like we must be doing something wrong because our children are still not picking up their socks. |
| 2:08.4 | And something that Sally reminds us of here is that it takes time. That excellence isn't just |
| 2:15.2 | something we do. It's a habit. We become what we repeatedly do. And that's what it means to walk |
| 2:21.2 | alongside our children in the area of discipline. And specifically when we're talking about training. |
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